2. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

4. Count Cavour [The “Head”] Giuseppi Garibaldi [The “Sword”] King Victor Emmanuel II Giuseppi Mazzini [The “Heart”] Italian Nationalist Leaders

5. Pope Pius IX: The “Spoiler”?

6. Sardinia-Piedmont: The “Magnet” Italian unification movement: Risorgimento [“Resurgence”]

7. Step #1: Carbonari Insurrections: 1820-1821 “Coalmen.”

8. Garibaldi Defends Rome Against the French, (April 30, 1849) Garibaldi Defends Rome Against the French, (April 30, 1849)

9. Step #2: Piedmont-Sardinia Sends Troops to the Crimea What does Piedmont-Sardinia get in return?

10. The Crimean War [1854-1856] Russia [claimed protectorship over the Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire] Ottoman Empire Great Britain France Piedmont-Sardinia

11. The Crimean War [1854-1856]

12. Treaty of Paris [1856]  No Russian or Ottoman naval forces on the Black Sea.  All the major powers agreed to respect the political integrity of the Ottoman Empire. Who benefited? Who lost big?

13. Step #3: Cavour & Napoleon III Meet at Plombières, 1858 What “deals” are made here?

14. Step #4: Austro-Sardinian War, 1859

15. Step #5: Garibaldi & His “Red Shirts” Unite with Cavour

16. Step #6: Austro-Prussian War, 1866 Austria loses control of Venetia. Venetia is annexed to Italy.

17. Step #7: French Troops Leave Rome, 1870 Italy is united!

18. A Unified Peninsula! A contemporary British cartoon, entitled "Right Leg in the Boot at Last," shows Garibaldi helping Victor Emmanuel put on the Italian boot.

19. The Kingdom of Italy: 1871 What problems still remain for Italy?

21. Zollverein, 1834

22. Prussia/Austria Rivalry

24. Kaiser Wilhelm I

25. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck “Blood & Iron” Realpolitik The “Iron Chancellor”

26. Otto von Bismarck.... The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they’ll sleep at night. Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied. The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches and majority decisions—that was the mistake of 1848-1849—but by blood and iron.

27. Otto von Bismarck.... I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made. A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one. Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will provoke the next war.

28. The German Confederation

29. Step #1: The Danish War [1864] Step #1: The Danish War [1864] The Peace of Vienna

30. Step #2: Austro-Prussian War [Seven Weeks’ War], 1866 Prussia Austria

31. Step #3: Creation of the Northern German Confederation, 1867 Shortly following the victory of Prussia, Bismarck eliminated the Austrian led German Confederation. He then established a new North German Confederation which Prussia could control  Peace of Prague

32. Step #4: Ems Dispatch [1870]: Catalyst for War 1868 revolt in Spain. Spanish leaders wanted Prince Leopold von Hohenz. [a cousin to the Kaiser & a Catholic], as their new king. France protested & his name was withdrawn. The Fr. Ambassador asked the Kaiser at Ems to apologize to Nap. III for supporting Leopold. Bismarck “doctored” the telegram from Wilhelm to the French Ambassador to make it seem as though the Kaiser had insulted Napoleon III.

33. Step #5: Franco-Prussian War [1870-1871] German soldiers “abusing” the French.

34. Step #4: Franco-Prussian War [1870-1871]

35. Bismarck & Napoleon III After Sedan

36. Treaty of Frankfurt [1871] The Second French Empire collapsed and was replaced by the Third French Empire. The Italians took Rome and made it their capital. Russia put warships in the Black Sea [in defiance of the 1856 Treaty of Paris that ended the Crimean War]. ------------------- France paid a huge indemnity and was occupied by German troops until it was paid. France ceded Alsace-Lorraine to Germany [a region rich in iron deposits with a flourishing textile industry].

37. Coronation of Kaiser Wilhelm I [r. 1871–1888]

38. Prussian Junkers Swear Their Allegiance to the Kaiser

39. German Imperial Flag German for “Empire.”

40. Bismarck Manipulating the Reichstag

41. Bismarck’s Kulturkampf: Anti-Catholic Program Take education and marriage out of the hands of the clergy  civil marriages only recognized. The Jesuits are expelled from Germany. The education of Catholic priests would be under the supervision of the German government.

42. Bismarck’s Reapproachment With the Catholic Church Bismarck & Pope Leo XIII

43. Kaiser Wilhelm II [r. 1888-1918]

44. Queen Victoria’s Grandchildren

45. “Dropping the Pilot” [1890]

46. Kaiser Wilhelm II

48. Differing Nationalities in the Austrian Empire

49. Austrian Imperial Flag

50. Emperor Franz Josef I [r. 1848-1916]

51. The Compromise of 1867: The Dual Monarchy  Austria- Hungary The Hungarian Flag